Europe worried by migrant permits

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Europe worried by migrant permits

Italy's European Union partners are concerned about reports that the government intends to grant legal status to 500,000 illegal immigrants, European Commission Vice President Franco Frattini said on Friday

One of the main routes for would-be immigrants aiming to reach Europe is through the desert from central Africa, into Libya and up to ports on the northern coast. Here they pay organised crime groups to ferry them in creaking boats towards Italy's southern shores .

Interior Undersecretary Marcella Lucidi, of the Democratic Left, sparked further polemics this week by promising an end to the policy of flying illegal immigrants who came from Libya straight back to that country

a warning on leftist governments - and they're hardly in!

[FutureTaoiseach]

Maybe a more liberal policy by Italy will mean fewer coming here. I would hope that Italy would go further and lift the barriers on Eastern Europe in that regard too, though I can understand why Italians might not like that.

[rkeane]

What do you think will happen if Labour get into power - an amnesty! This measure by the Italian government should serve as a warning to all of us - don't vote for the lefties.

[zoinks]

whats wrong with a amnesty every now and again? live and let live

[sackville]

What do you think will happen if Labour get into power - an amnesty! This measure by the Italian government should serve as a warning to all of us - don't vote for the lefties.

true, but in Ireland are the 'right' much better?

[georgedillon]

rkeane:

"What do you think will happen if Labour get into power - an amnesty! "

Couldn't be any worse than the tidal wave of migrant workers and "asylum seekers", together with the laxest citizenship system outside the Cayman Islands, all bestowed on us by the PD Minister for Justice.
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